The next day (Sunday) we met the advertised seal and grass snake. First we paddled across the big bay towards the western most islets west from Molesund. There is another excellent camp site by the beach in the inner lagoon – there are even toilets and bins for recycled waste (In the middle of nowhere :). We only reached it at a completely wrong time of the day – noon. So we continued out from there as planned towards the lighthouse on Maseskar, about 7.7 km of open crossing according to our GPS.

We set off, and thought that these nice flat smooth granite rocks, warm from the sun would be excellent for seals. Eventually we saw one, but it behaved in the usual inquisitive but wary pattern: he kept his distance, just popped up his head time from time and then disappeared under water. Another rather strange encounter was a grass snake. It was swimming quite far away from the nearest rocks – heading towards the open sea. It could have been hitchhiking – when Tomas stopped it from climbing onto his kayak it did seem very angry – and when we kept paddling towards the lighthouse on the horizon, it turned back and disappeared. Hopefully it eventually got to where it wanted to be.

The prospect of lunch by the lighthouse came true, and then we even managed to have some fun in the waves on the side of the island and then be helped by the surf and even a tiny tidal race almost all the way back towards Karingon and Molesund. It was still nice and sunny, the wind picked up a little bit. We filled our water bags in Molesund and decided to return for the night to the nice lagoon with the excellent campsite we found earlier that day.

As we rounded the southwest corner of the island the swell and a few breaking waves took us by surprise but we thought it should be fine once we get to the passage into the lagoon. Once we got there it turned out that the biggest waves travelling directly somewhere from Denmark were heading exactly into the same gap in between rocks as us. We were quite tired after some 30 kilometres and didn’t want to go all the way round to the second possible passage at the other side of the lagoon. Therefore we had to zigzag our way among quite many nasty breakers (some of them helped by the invisible flat granite rocks just below the surface) but we managed and in the end got to the well deserved luxurious campsite by the sheltered beach.